Ralph Nader lives, at least for a while. Bernalillo County District Court Judge Wendy York has rescinded her ruling knocking the independent Prez contender off the ballot. York came under fire (see below) after it was revealed she contributed $1000 to Dem Prez contender Kerry but still went ahead and accepted the Nader case and made her ruling. The case will apparently now be re-heard presuming the D's continue the battle against Nader even as the Secretary of State is having the Nov. 2 ballot printed.

Nader has turned in twice the number of petition signatures required to make the NM Prez ballot, but Dems are challenging the Nader signatures. On Sunday Big Bill told Fox-TV that it was good news for Dems that Nader was knocked off by York because he received 4% of the NM vote in 2000 when Dem Al Gore only won the state by 366 votes. He said much of Nader's vote came from Dems. Nader has traditionally had strong support in northern NM and around the UNM campus.